Contemporary FBI repression/surveillance/LeonardPeltier/Left unity

[Michael Pugliese <debsian@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Michael:

Could you post this for me on PEN-L and LBO and anywhere else it might
usefully fit?  Thanks very much!  Hunterbear


WEBSITE ADDITIONS AT  LAIR OF HUNTERBEAR

Hunter Gray [Hunterbear]

Our large website -- Lair of Hunterbear  www.hunterbear.org -- is
constantly being up-dated and feathered-out.

Our website front page has been somewhat changed.

New announcements have been posted on the Index/Directory page.

And here are several of a number of recent additions involving a number of
key issues -- with the respective link:


1]  My just sent open letter to the United States Left radical community on
contemporary FBI repression/surveillance.  This is followed immediately by
the national Report on Terrorism and Task Forces from Portland, Oregon
1-11-01.  Among the many fascinating and sinister dimensions indicated in
this excellent summary and analysis, be sure to note the massive financial
boondoggle pay-offs for "law enforcement" agencies at all levels,  for
equipment-producing outfits and for consultants; the heavy emphasis on a
sweeping and vague "potential" dimension vis-a-vis "social" and "political"
"terrorism"  etc. and the frightening formulation of the concept of
"Potential Threat Element" relating to an individual or individuals -- and
utilizing the vaguest kind of hearsay and rumour; and the virtual lack of
any actual on-going terroristic activity in the United States within the
meaning of these Federal statutes and policies!

http://www.hunterbear.org/an_open_letter_to_the_left_radic.htm


2]  Our own  bizarre situation as a Left radical [and family] in
contemporary Pocatello, Idaho -- obviously targeted by the local FBI / state
police / city police "task force" and harassed, crudely and blatantly,  ever
since we arrived in Idaho four years ago.  Because of the  crudity of this
whole thing, it's been extremely obvious -- standing as an interesting and
classic case history in contemporary McCarthyism.   We constantly update
this situation -- about which we  now continue to hear more and more.

http://www.hunterbear.org/camp.htm

3]  On-going massive injustice against Leonard Peltier, the lack of any
significant social justice consciousness in his home town of Grand Forks,
ND -- or at University of North Dakota -- is discussed in the up-dated

http://www.hunterbear.org/undsituations.htm


4]  Organizing philosophies and strategies and Left unity are explored in
this developing, new section:

http://www.hunterbear.org/working_organizer.htm

5]  The poisonous origins and effects of racism and cultural
ethnocentrism -- and some other anti-people isms -- are handled in this
material of mine which has just been published in The Northwest Ethnic
Voice:

http://www.hunterbear.org/nativetribalism.htm


6]  The June 11 2001 issue of the normally reliable radical journal, In
These Times, carried, as its lead story and front cover piece, an article
which essentially supported the fantastic claim that, in 1943 in South
Mississippi, over one thousand Black GIs were massacred and the affair
completely and effectively covered up for more than half a century by the
United States Army and other governmental authorities.  Many are the racial
and ethnic and gender and related crimes in  the United States [and
elsewhere] but this utterly bizarre contention -- put out  and carried
primarily by two  older White men from McComb Mississippi -- is nonsense.  I
immediately posted three major pieces debunking all of this -- and those
posts were carried -- via my initial listings and dozens of forwards -- to
many thousands of people.  [The Radical History Discussion section carried
them faithfully, reposting at least once.]  I have received nothing of any
kind which even remotely  challenges my position  in any substantive
fashion -- and, indeed, I have received a large number of messages from
persons of all sorts of racial and regional backgrounds who vigorously agree
with me.

http://www.hunterbear.org/newactivistthoughts.htm


7]  I was a leading plaintiff in the generation-long Federal case involving
the files of the old Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission.  This a
summary of that tangled affair and my final comments on the matter:

http://www.hunterbear.org/tangledsovcomcase.htm


I have recently done several articles on various social justice topics which
are presently in press.  When they appear in print, I'll post them on our
Website.


My experiences as the only tenured Native American professor [and, for
several years, chair] of Indian Studies at the University of North Dakota
were among the most vicious that I've ever experienced in any academic
setting.  When we came here to Pocatello, Idaho, in 1997, we immediately
encountered [1] very friendly immediate neighbors and, [2] the crude and
vicious actions of the so-called Federal / state police / local police
"task force."

We survive all of these things -- as we've always survived  all of these
things since my Teen years [if not earlier!] and we keep right on keeping
on.  We always will.  In the Fall of 1959, in a period of high crisis for
the copper workers of the Mountain West, the late Juan Chacon, then
president of the Amalgamated Bayard District Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter
Workers - Local 890, commented to me:  "Success will be ours in the long
run."  I've always remembered his steadfast courage and unbroken optimism.

Juan Chacon was, by the way, the male lead in the great labor film, Salt of
the Earth [worker rights, minority rights, womens' rights], filmed on
location in Grant County, NM in 1953 -- in the face of unremitting attacks
by vigilantes and thugs, mining bosses, American Legion, the House
Un-American Activities Committee, et al.  "Salt," which won numerous top
international  film awards, was black-listed vis-a-vis every commercial
movie theatre in the United States.  It was recently picked by the United
States Library of Congress as one of the 100 films made in the United States
which must and will be preserved for everlasting  posterity. Long before
that, New Mexico Western University named a building for Juan Chacon.

Anyway, to our friends and fellow workers -- keep fighting!  And, to our
enemies, we shall always keep going -- full ahead.


In Solidarity -

Hunter Gray  [Hunterbear]
www.hunterbear.org





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